The backbone of Anim/VFX is built on Linux. However, the majority of these places are running RHEL/CentOS. Adding that text is just standard marketing for the

The backbone of Anim/VFX is built on Linux. However, the majority of these places are running RHEL/CentOS. Adding that text is just standard marketing for the layman to know that the system is ready for graphics workloads, be it VFX or CAD. For your second question: Nuke, Mari, Katana, Maya, Houdini, Substance, Clarisse, Fusion and Resolve (less used), RenderMan, Arnold, VRay, Redshift, Octane, Blender, etc. You’ve also got custom in-house tools and applications, motion capture software, render managers, project management tooling, plugins, etc.